Ursula POTTER

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Article from Mary Riley MacDonald's Scrapbook
(The aunt of Flossie (Riley) Osborn)
Ursula Potter obituary -- mentions Orlando Eaton, child referred to in George Watson's "Century Old Letter Recalls Forgotten Town of Early Days," published in the Morrow County Independent,April 11, 1935. The century old letter was written by Reuben Whipple.
URSULA POTTER, daughter of Asahel and Anne Potter was born in Litchfield, Conn. on the 2nd of June, 1800-.. On the 27th of February, 1817, her parents, with their six children started for Ohio with their team of oxen and horses hitched to one wagon. They found their double team necessary in crossing the mountains through the deep snow and mud. They reached Lancaster, Ohio, on the 13th of April and remained in the vicinity one year; then near Westerville, Franklin County, they stayed three years.. In April 1821, they located on an uncultivated farm of their own in Peru Township, Morrow County, Ohio, then Lelaware County and had. hardly got their cabin doors up when that well-remembered deep snow came on the 16th, On the 29th of June 1824, Ursula was married to Joseph Eaton whose farm of 80 acres adjoined her father's. By industry and economy they eventually added over 200 acres to it. They had three children, Orlando, who when 2 years old was drowned in a tan vat, on the 27th of April 1829. Fernando, who when 21 years of age was drowned while bathing in the Olentapgy River, June 17, 1851 and Cordelia, who at the age of 24 years died of camp fever, contracted at Camp Chase, where her husband, Dr. Longwell, was .Post surgeon, and where he died of the same fever, March 20, 1865, Cornelia dying four days later, March 24, 1865 leaving two little boys which their grandparents took and brought up and with whom their grandmother spent her last years in helplessness and where she died on November 23, 1886 . Her husband died on the 26th of August, 1875. In early life, Mrs. Eaton joined the Baptist church but seeing the apathy of the church on the subject of slavery, she left It. Beingimore free to think.for herself, she discarded the idea of eternal suffering for any of God's creatures and adopted the Second Advent idea of "no resurrection for those out of Christ." she bore her many trials with Christian fortitude. and has at last reached that rest,which in her helpless---years, she so very much coveted. (A sister)

Ursula married Joseph EATON, son of Isaac EATON and Keziah LEWIS, on 20 Jun 1824 in Delaware Co., Ohio, United States. (Joseph EATON was born on 20 Oct 1798 in Newark, Delaware, died on 26 Aug 1875 in Peru, Morrow, Ohio and was buried in Whitehall Cem., Stantontown, Peru, Morrow Co., Ohio.)